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FRIDA is an infrared imager and integral field spectrograph for the adaptive-optics focus of the Gran Telescopio Canarias.

FRIDA will offer

Imaging with:
- Scales of 0.010" and 0.020" per pixel to provide good sampling of the diffraction-limited core of the PSF at 1.0 and 2.0 microns.
- Fields of view of roughly 20" × 20" and 40" × 40".
- A wide range of broad-band and narrow-band filters.
Integral-field spectroscopy with:
- Spatial scales of 0.010 × 0.020", 0.020" × 0.040", and 0.040" × 0.080 per spaxel.
- Fields of view of roughly 0.6" × 0.6", 1.2" × 1.2", and 2.4" × 2.4".
- Spectral resolutions λ/Δλ of roughly 1000 (covering ZJ or HK), 4000 (covering each of Z, J, H, or K), and 30,000 (covering any part of H or K).

FRIDA is being built by a team of scientists and engineers from a consortium of institutions in Mexico, Spain, the United States of America, and France lead by the Instituto de Astronomía of the UNAM. The principal investigator is Dr. José Alberto López.

This is the public web site for FRIDA.

We passed our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in August 2007 and Critical Design Review (CDR) in September 2011. We expect to commission FRIDA on the telescope in 2015.

2012-02-07.